Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Sat Mar 08, 2014 2:33 pm

Gondolas are like the high-speed detachable chairs they come off of the cable to let you load and unload, they are spaced out enough to make this work well. From what I see out West gondolas are not as common as trams, you take your skis off for both, but they go a long ways up the mountain and go fast. Gondolas hold 4 to 6 people; trams can hold a lot more people some I think over 100 people. Where I ski is open 9 to 9 everyday until spring then midweek nights closes, in late spring they are only open on weekends. Over at Timberline they have skiing all year long and summer skiing is on the Palmer Glacier. Yesterday I was skiing along the bottom of a cliff to get to some fresh powder when a guy came flying off of the cliff, it was a big drop and he was going very fast. If he had hit me I could have died. At the bottom of the run were a bunch of guys watching him, if he was going to jump blind off of a cliff why the H did he not have his friends act as spotters to keep people out of danger. Dumb people are everywhere and they don't know they are dumb.

The things I do are an evolution and I am always learning. My way is not the only way of doing things, and I may and will change the way I do things as I learn better ways. So any advice that I give is in that spirit.

Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:56 am

tomf wrote:Gondolas are like the high-speed detachable chairs they come off of the cable to let you load and unload, they are spaced out enough to make this work well. From what I see out West gondolas are not as common as trams, you take your skis off for both, but they go a long ways up the mountain and go fast. Gondolas hold 4 to 6 people; trams can hold a lot more people some I think over 100 people. Where I ski is open 9 to 9 everyday until spring then midweek nights closes, in late spring they are only open on weekends. Over at Timberline they have skiing all year long and summer skiing is on the Palmer Glacier. Yesterday I was skiing along the bottom of a cliff to get to some fresh powder when a guy came flying off of the cliff, it was a big drop and he was going very fast. If he had hit me I could have died. At the bottom of the run were a bunch of guys watching him, if he was going to jump blind off of a cliff why the H did he not have his friends act as spotters to keep people out of danger. Dumb people are everywhere and they don't know they are dumb.

I see. I just went skiing today. I'll try to put together some video of it. I used a go pro.

Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:06 pm

Remixed Mr. Postman with a bit of Dub step, it's ok. I have done some Dub step myself.

The things I do are an evolution and I am always learning. My way is not the only way of doing things, and I may and will change the way I do things as I learn better ways. So any advice that I give is in that spirit.

The things I do are an evolution and I am always learning. My way is not the only way of doing things, and I may and will change the way I do things as I learn better ways. So any advice that I give is in that spirit.

Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:34 am

I think it is more important to be in control than to go fast, I see people skiing faster than they should according to their ability and they are a danger to everyone. Also different people of different abilities ski at different speeds. It also depends upon where you are skiing, I ski a verity of speeds depending upon the conditions and traffic, where I am, and how I feel like skiing. I read the average skier goes about 25 MPH, it is nothing to go over 50 mph for an expert skier. The ski rep I got my racing GS skis from said they were good to 70 MPH, I am sure I have not had them up that fast. Thursday I will bring my GS skis and my iPhone with an app that tells you your speeds, just to calibrate my brain.Yesterday I was off trail skiing in a place called Upper Elevator Shaft when I triggered an avalanche that was wind slab, and came down it blocks. Some more broke above me and swept my skis out from under me, I did not get pulled down with it so I was fine just full of snow. We went and told the ski patrol and one came with us so we could show them where it happened. He took photos of us next to the debris; I wish I could get the photos. Not far from the slide was a spot where they had use explosives to control the slope, but it did not slide. In this area they use hand tossed explosives to control the snow, in the outback canyons they have a cannon they got from the army to control the snow.

The things I do are an evolution and I am always learning. My way is not the only way of doing things, and I may and will change the way I do things as I learn better ways. So any advice that I give is in that spirit.

Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Wed Mar 12, 2014 9:48 pm

tomf wrote:I think it is more important to be in control than to go fast, I see people skiing faster than they should according to their ability and they are a danger to everyone. Also different people of different abilities ski at different speeds. It also depends upon where you are skiing, I ski a verity of speeds depending upon the conditions and traffic, where I am, and how I feel like skiing. I read the average skier goes about 25 MPH, it is nothing to go over 50 mph for an expert skier. The ski rep I got my racing GS skis from said they were good to 70 MPH, I am sure I have not had them up that fast. Thursday I will bring my GS skis and my iPhone with an app that tells you your speeds, just to calibrate my brain.Yesterday I was off trail skiing in a place called Upper Elevator Shaft when I triggered an avalanche that was wind slab, and came down it blocks. Some more broke above me and swept my skis out from under me, I did not get pulled down with it so I was fine just full of snow. We went and told the ski patrol and one came with us so we could show them where it happened. He took photos of us next to the debris; I wish I could get the photos. Not far from the slide was a spot where they had use explosives to control the slope, but it did not slide. In this area they use hand tossed explosives to control the snow, in the outback canyons they have a cannon they got from the army to control the snow.

Re: Skiing/Snowboarding

Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:18 am

The answer to how fast do we go has been calibrated; I took my iPhone skiing app with me yesterday as I wanted to know what speeds I was going. The application tracks your maximum speeds, average speeds, has a speed graph over time, it shows where you went, how steep it was and has a graph of the slope along with the maximum pitch you skied. Most skiers are going about 25 mph some slower and some faster, a fast skier is going over 30 mph, and one that looks as if they are going much faster than most people will be over 40 mph, real fast is over 50 mph. My fastest speed for the day was 65 mph, and that is not the fastest I have gone, I think I have gone up to 80 mph before. The steepest slope I was on was 57 degrees. Most of the day we were going about 45 to 55 mph. It is a cool program; if you go to the app store look for ski apps and you will find it. Mind you this ski report is from out west with wide open runs and steeper slopes, and my friends and I tend to ski faster than most people. Also the maximum slope would be at the top of a run, not the whole run, going down a 57 degree slope for a long distance would be like what some of the extreme skiers do up in Alaska.

The things I do are an evolution and I am always learning. My way is not the only way of doing things, and I may and will change the way I do things as I learn better ways. So any advice that I give is in that spirit.